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[cnoocy]

I just finished reading the Etymologies of St. Isidore, which I started in the summer of 2004. I still have more fun bits to post, but in case I don't get to it, here's what he says about the beet:

Beta apud nos oleris genus; apud Graecos littera.

The beta (beet) is among us a type of vegetable; among the Greeks it is a letter.

(XVII, x, 15)

It will be odd to leave for work on Monday without Isidore in my satchel.

(ETA reference)